If you never attend Helston Town Council meetings, you'll never know what really happens. "Oh, but I can just read the minutes", you might claim, but you would be wrong. When things get interesting, the minute taker can no longer keep up and the minutes will simply say "Following a detailed debate, Cllr So-and-so proposed..." The minutes aren't meant to be more than a precis, so unless you attend you'll never hear one councillor talk at length about the dangers of Ragwort, until he eventually has to be brought to heel by the chair. You certainly won't read about the chair offering to do a rendition of 'Huey & Ralph' at the mayor's request, to illustrate why the mayor couldn't be at the meeting. More importantly, you won't understand the jockeying that takes place seemingly every time someone puts forward a straightforward proposal. For instance, in July, one councillor proposed that the council should make a special effort to
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